So HATfi cxxxvni. 



alfo dtfoover many minute punctures, and feveral Waved lines and 

 ftreaks, which defcend along the Shells from the bafe, and unite 

 near the apex* 



Its colours are more or lefs beautiful as the Infect is healthy or 

 fickly ; and as it dies, the colours gradually perifh ; the fplendor of 

 gold is no longer vifible than life is retained, it changes to green ; 

 from green to a brown, which fcarceiy appears through a faint tinge 

 of blue, and in a few hours it changes altogether to a rufty brown 

 colour. 



This Infect is admirably protected from external injury by the 

 fingular form of its Thorax and Shells, which are alfo fo large as to 

 conceal every other part when the Infect walks. 



The natural fize is fhown at fig. 4, (upper fide.) Fig. 2, under 

 fide. Fig. 3, upper fide magnified. 



F I G. IV. 



CHRYSQMELA BANKI.I. 



CoLfiOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae knotted, enlarging towards the ends. Corfelet mar- 

 gined. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



Body oval. Head, Thorax and Shells, purplim olive colour, 

 changeable, with a bronze appearance. Beneath, reddifh brown, 

 or teftaceous. 



Chrysomela Bankii : ovata fupra asnea fubtus teftacea. Fab- 

 Entomohgia Syjiematica. T< I. 310. 16. 



This is a very rare Infect in England. It refembles Chryfomeh 

 hlcohr in fize, and colour of the Head, Thorax and Shells ; but it 

 may be readily diftinguifhed from that fpecies by the teftaceous 

 colour of the under fide, that part being wholly of a violaceous, 

 colour in C. bicolor. 



Found in May on a thiftle. 



F I g; 



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